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I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
— Etgar Keret
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
— Etgar Keret
Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.
— Etgar Keret
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
— Etgar Keret
In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.
— Etgar Keret
I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.
— Etgar Keret
The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
— Etgar Keret
I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
— Etgar Keret
He tells them that there is a line that separates killing bugs from killing frogs, and that no matter how hard it is, that line must never be crossed
— Etgar Keret
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.
— Etgar Keret
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
— Etgar Keret
Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
— Etgar Keret
I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.
— Etgar Keret
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
— Etgar Keret
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
— Etgar Keret
The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.
— Etgar Keret
You can remember without seeing it.
— Etgar Keret
It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
— Etgar Keret
Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.
— Etgar Keret
In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
— Etgar Keret
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.
— Etgar Keret
A word is a lot.
— Etgar Keret
If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.
— Etgar Keret
I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.
— Etgar Keret
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
— Etgar Keret
As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.
— Etgar Keret
An awfully beautiful story, but it isn't mine.
— Etgar Keret
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
— Etgar Keret
I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.
— Etgar Keret
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
— Etgar Keret
Thirty miles is a long way, even by car, and on foot it's a thousand times more, especially for a dog, whose step is like a quarter of a human's.
— Etgar Keret
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
— Etgar Keret
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
— Etgar Keret
In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
— Etgar Keret
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
— Etgar Keret
For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing.
— Etgar Keret
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
— Etgar Keret
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
— Etgar Keret
Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
— Etgar Keret
I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.
— Etgar Keret
This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
— Etgar Keret
Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.
— Etgar Keret
As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.
— Etgar Keret